I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.